| Title | Professor |
| Department | Macon Ridge Research Station |
| PPrice@agcenter.lsu.edu | |
| Address 1 | 212A Macon Ridge Road Winnsboro, LA 71295 |
| Phone | 318-435-2903 |
| Fax | 000-000-0000 |
2008-2013 Ph.D., Plant Pathology, Louisiana State University
1999-2000 M. S. Biology, Louisiana Tech University
1994-1999 B. S. Agronomy, Louisiana Tech University
1991-1994 High School Diploma, Winnsboro High School
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY & HISTORY OF ASSIGNMENTS WITH LSU AGCENTER
September 2013 – Present, Plant Pathology Assistant/Associate (2018) Professor, Interim Research Coordinator, Research Coordinator, Interim Corn, Cotton, and Grain Sorghum Specialist (x2), Interim Rice Pathologist, Macon Ridge Research Station/Tom H. Scott, Research, Extension, and Education Center, LSU AgCenter
February 2010 – September 2013, Plant Pathology Research Associate, Macon Ridge Research Station, LSU AgCenter, Supervisor: G. B. Padgett
May 2005 – February 2010, Entomology Research Associate, Macon Ridge Research Station, LSU AgCenter, Supervisor: B. Rogers Leonard
May 2003 – May 2005, Entomology, Agronomy, Weed Science, & Soil Science Extension Associate, Tom H. Scott Extension Center, LSU AgCenter, Supervisors: Drs. Ralph Bagwell, Steven T. Kelly, Joel Faircloth, Bob Hutchinson, and Mr. J. Cheston Stevens
May 2005 – December 2010, Owner, P3 Consulting, LLC, 6727 Kinloch Street, Winnsboro, LA.
May 2006 – December 2008, Research Associate, Syngenta Crop Protection, Supervisor: Dr. Scott Martin
February 2002 – September 2002, Plant Pathology Research Associate, Louisiana Tech University, P.O. Box 3179, Ruston, LA, Supervisor: Dr. H. L. Walker (Deceased)
October 2000 – February 2002, Environmental Consulting Biologist, PPM Consultants, Inc., 2508 Ticheli Road, Monroe, LA, Supervisor: Mr. Shawn Ivey
June 1998 – March 1999, Plant Pathology Student Worker, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, Supervisor: Dr. H. L. Walker (Deceased)
June 1991 – September 1997, Senior Crew Chief, Stapp Consulting Company, Winnsboro, LA, Supervisor: Mr. John Stapp
September 1990 – December 1993, Laborer, Johnson’s Gin & Feed Mill Co., Chase, LA, Supervisor: Mr. O. D. Johnson, Sr. (Deceased)
Refereed journal articles (past 5 years, in alphabetical order, Citations with more than 10 authors may be abbreviated, n=50)
Anderson, N. R.,…P. Price, et al. 2024. Sensitivity of the causal agent of northern leaf blight of corn, Exserohilum turcicum, to the demethylase-inhibiting fungicide flutriafol. Plant Health Progress. Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-11-23-0098-RS. Contributing Author
Barro, J. P., E. M. Del Ponte, T. Allen, J. P. Bond, T. R. Faske, C. A. Hollier, Y. R. Kandel, D. S. Mueller, H. M. Kelly, N. M. Kleczewski, K. A. Ames, P. Price, E. J. Sikora, and C. A. Bradley. 2023. Meta-analytic modeling of the severity-yield relationships in soybean frogeye leaf spot epidemics. Plant Dis. 107:3422-3429. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-23-0440-RE. Contributing Author
Barro, J. P., E. M. Del Ponte, T. Allen, J. P. Bond, T. R. Faske, C. A. Hollier, Y. R. Kandel, D. S. Mueller, H. M. Kelly, N. M. Kleczewski, K. A. Ames, P. Price, E. J. Sikora, and C. A. Bradley. 2023. Efficacy and profitability of fungicides for managing frogeye leaf spot on soybean in the United States: A 10-year quantitative summary. Plant Dis. 107:3487-3496. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-23-0291-RE. Contributing Author, *Editor’s Pick
Bradley, C. A.,…, P. Price, et al. 2021. Soybean yield loss estimates due to diseases in the United States and Ontario, Canada, from 2015 to 2019. Plant Health Progress. 22:483-495. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-01-21-0013-RS. Contributing Author
Campos, P., D. Miller, J. Copes, M. Netterville, S. Brown, T. Price, D. Moseley, T. Gentimis, P. Egbedi, R. Parvej. 2023. Influence of harvest aid on soybean seed quality affected by delayed harvest and environment in Louisiana. Crop, Forage, and Turfgrass Mgmt. 2023;9:e20221. https://doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20221. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Campos, P., D. Miller, J. Copes, M. Netterville, S. Brown, T. Price, D. Moseley, T. Gentimis, P. Egbedi, R. Parvej. 2023. Influence of planting date, maturity group, and harvest timing on soybean yield and seed quality. Agronomy Journal. 2023;1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21527. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Garcia-Aroca, T., P. Price, J. E. Solorzano, D. Galo, S. B. Sheffield, and V. P. Doyle. 2022. Secondary metabolites produced by Xylaria necrophora are responsible for foliar symptoms associated with taproot decline of soybean. Plant Health Progress. 23:388-398. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-03-22-0021-RS. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Garcia-Aroca, T., P. Price, M. Tomaso-Peterson, T. W. Allen, T. H. Wilkerson, T. N. Spurlock, T. R. Faske, B. Bluhm, K. Conner, E. Sikora, R. Guyer, H. Kelly, B. M. Squires, and V. P. Doyle. 2021. Xylaria necrophora, sp. nov., is an emerging root-associated pathogen responsible for taproot decline of soybean in the southern United States. Mycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2020.1846965. Contributing Author, Student Paper, New Species
Hanna, E. A., C. E. Astete, T. Price, C. Tamez, O. E. Mendez, A. Garcia, F. V. Kewir, J. C. White, and C. M. Sabliov. 2024. Antifungal efficacy of nanodelivered azoxystrobin against Rhizoctonia solani in soybean (Glycine max). Agricultural Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.3c00469. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Kasco, T., E. A. Hanna, F. Salinas, C. E. Astete, E. Bodoki, R. Oprean, P. Price, V. P. Doyle, C. A. R. Bonser, J. A. Davis, and C. M. Sabliov. 2022. Zein and lignin-based nanoparticles as soybean seed treatment: translocation and impact on seed and plant health. Applied Nanoscience. 12:1557-1569. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-021-02307-3. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Koebernick, J. C.,…P. Price, et al. 2024. Monitoring the distribution, incidence, and symptom expression associated with cotton leafroll dwarf virus in the southern United States using a sentinel plot system in the southern united states. PhytoFrontiers. First Look. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHYTOFR-02-24-0008-R. Contributing Author
Miller, D.K., Campos, P., Copes, J.T., Netterville, M., Brown, S., Price, P.P., Moseley, D.O., Gentimis, T., Egbedi, P ., & Parvej, M.R. 2024. Influence of fungicide on soybean seed quality from delayed harvest and environment. Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management, e70002. https://doi.org/10.1002/cft2.70002. Contributing Author
Patel, J.,…P. Price, et al. 2024. Deciphering genetic factors contributing to enhanced resistance against Cercospora leaf blight in soybean (Glycine max L.) using GWAS analysis. Frontiers in Genetics. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1377223.
Petrovic, K., D. Skaltsas, L. A. Castlebury, B. Kontz, T. W. Allen, M. I. Chilvers, N. Gregory, H. M. Kelly, A. M. Koehler, N. M. Kleczewski, D. S. Mueller, P. Price, D. L. Smith, F. M. Mathew. 2021. Diaporthe seed decay of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is endemic in the United States, but new fungi are involved. Plant Dis. 105:1621-1629. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-20-0604-RE. Contributing Author
Rodriguez-Herrera, K. D., V. P. Doyle, P. Price, G. B. Padgett, and S. Thomas-Sharma. 2023. Aerial blight of soybean caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG1-1A: A diagnostic guide. Plant Health Progress. 24:234-241. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-05-22-0043-DG. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Rodriguez-Herrera, K. D., A. Vargas, J. Amie, P. Price, L. D. Salgado, V. P. Doyle, J. K. Richards, D. Moseley, A. Rojas, and S. Thomas-Sharma. 2024. Development of a greenhouse assay to screen soybean varieties for resistance to aerial blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group 1-IA. Phytopathology. 14:1039-1049. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-23-0390-KC. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Shrestha, B. K.*, B. M. Ward, T. W. Allen*, E. T. da Silva, H. Zulli, W. Dunford, V. Doyle*, C. A. Bradley, B. Buckley, P. Chen, M. Clubb, H. Kelly, J. Koebernick, B. Padgett, J. C. Rupe, E. J. Sikora, T. N. Spurlock, S. Thomas-Sharma, A. Tolbert, X. Zhou, and P. Price*. 2024. Characterization of QoI-fungicide resistance in Cercospora isolates associated with Cercospora leaf blight of soybean from the southern United States. Plant Dis. 108:149-161. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-23-0588-RE. *Share equal contributions. Post Doc Paper, Corresponding Author
Singh, R., M. De Souza, T. Burks, and T. Price. 2022. First report of southern blight of industrial hemp caused by Athelia rolfsii in Louisiana. Plant Health Progress. 23:101-102. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-05-21-0084-BR. Contributing Author
Solórzano, J.E., M.O. Ganiu, F. Donnarumma, T. Garcia-Aroca, R. Kartika, J.K. Richards, J.P. Van Houten, M.R. Gremillion, P.P. Price, V.P. Doyle. Antimicrobial and phytotoxic secondary metabolites produced by Xylaria necrophora, an emerging pathogen of soybean, play key roles in infection biology. In revision for Mycological Progress. Pre-print published on Research Square (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3002498/v1). Contributing Author
Ward, B. M., B. K. Shrestha, T. W. Allen, B. Buckley, P. Chen, M. Clubb, L. A. Mozzoni, M. Orazaly, L. Florez, D. Moseley, J. C. Rupe, T. Gentimis, and P. Price. 2021. Evaluating Cercospora leaf blight resistance in soybean accessions using an improved categorical disease-evaluation scale. J. Crop Improv. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427528.2020.1865226. Post Doc Paper
Webster, R. W., C. Nicolli, T. W. Allen, M. D. Bish, K. Bissonnette, J. C. Check, M. I. Chilvers, M. R. Duffeck, N. Kleczewski, J. M. Luis, B. D. Mueller, P. A. Paul, P. Price, A. E. Robertson, T. J. Ross, C. Schmidt, R. Schmidt, T. Schmidt, S. Shim, D. E. P. Telenko, K. Wise, and D. L. Smith. 2023. Uncovering the environmental conditions required for Phyllacora maydis infection and tar spot development on corn in the United States for use as predictive models for future epidemics. Scientific Reports. 13:17064. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44338-6. Contributing Author
Zivanovic, M., B. Ward, P. Price, and Z. Chen. 2021. Elucidation of factors contributing to onset of Cercospora leaf blight during later reproductive development of soybean. Plant Pathol. 2021;00:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13456. Contributing Author, Student Paper
Outstanding Student Scholarship to Louisiana Tech University (1994)
Graduate Assistantship to Louisiana Tech University (1999)
Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association Scholarship (2010)
Gamma Sigma Delta – LSU Chapter (former member)
Phi Kappa Phi – Honor Society (former member)
Southern Soybean Disease Workers – Outstanding Service as President, 2015 - 2016
LSU AgCenter – Tipton Team Research Award – Cercospora leaf blight of soybean – 2018
APS – Southern Division – Past President Award - 2021
North Central Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Directors – NCERA 137 Regional Award Winner and Nominee to the Experiment Station Section National Excellence in Multistate Research Award – 2021, 2023
Southern Soybean Disease Workers – Distinguished Service Award - 2022
Public Relations Society of America – Silver Anvil Award – SCN Coalition – 2022
LSU AgCenter – Extension Excellence Award - 2022
Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association - Applied Research Poster – 1st Place 2022
Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association - Applied Research Poster – 1st Place 2023
National Association of County Agricultural Agents – Applied Research Poster – Regional Winner – 2023
National Association of County Agricultural Agents – Applied Research Poster – National Finalist – 2023
Tri-State Soybean Board – Distinguished Service – 2024
Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association – Distinguished Service Award – 2024